Iconic images: The American soldier

This Veterans Day, let's take a look back at the American soldier.

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SP4 Nelson A. Parker uses field phone to call for air power as Vietnamese patrol is surrounded by Communist Viet Cong in jungle 20 miles north of Saigon in Vietnam on Feb. 15, 1965. Beside him is Sgt. Lloyd E. Rath. Both were U.S. advisers with the patrol. Eighteen Red guerrillas were killed in the battle. Parker’s parents live in Paul Smiths, New York. Rath’s wife lives in Ephrata, Pa.; his mother in Jamestown, North Dakota.

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SP4 Nelson A. Parker uses field phone to call for air power as Vietnamese patrol is surrounded by Communist Viet Cong in jungle 20 miles north of Saigon in Vietnam on Feb. 15, 1965. Beside him is Sgt. Lloyd E. Rath. Both were U.S. advisers with the patrol. Eighteen Red guerrillas were killed in the battle. Parker’s parents live in Paul Smiths, New York. Rath’s wife lives in Ephrata, Pa.; his mother in Jamestown, North Dakota.